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Sergio Garcia surged to the top of the Leaderboard at the WGC at Bridgestone…literally! Garcia shot a round of 27 on the back nine, made six consecutive birdies and finished at -11 to surpass the day’s prior leader Justin Rose (-8). Really incredible nine holes of golf played by Garcia, playing along side Phil Mickelson. Tiger Woods had a very nice opening day yesterday, shooting a round of 68 but took a slight step back today, finishing with a round of 71 and at -1 he is tied for 25th, ten strokes off the lead heading into the weekend. Tiger is still trying to get his game on coming back from the long layoff and rehab after back surgery and he is the defending champion at this event.
After the second round, the leaderboard is as follows: Sergio Garcia -11, Justin Rose -8, world #2 Rory Mcilroy and Marc Leishman at -7, Rickie Fowler and Charles Schwartzel at -6, Patrick Reed and Keegan Bradley at-5. There is your “top five”. Other notables…world #1 Adam Scott is at -3 along with Georgia Tech standout and all around good guy Matt Kuchar. Wonderkid Jordan Spieth from Texas is at +1 and Lefty (Mickelson) is a disappointing +4 (at one point on the back nine, he was at +5).
Tomorrow’s tee times have been moved up…7:00 am EST due to the threat of bad weather later in the day. Stay tuned…weekend rounds still to come! Hard to imagine Sergio could replicate today’s play so things should get tighter tomorrow at the top. Tiger has a long climb ahead of him being ten shots off the lead…but of course stranger things have happened! Should be a good Saturday and Sunday of golf from Ohio!
Enjoy your Friday night!
